Laboratory Nontarget Host Range of the Introduced Parasitoids Microctonus aethiopoides and M. hyperodae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) Compared with Field Parasitism in New Zealand

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 694-702

  Barratt, B I P ^a   Evans, A A ^a   Ferguson, C M ^a   Barker, G M ^a,b   McNeill, M R ^a,c   Phillips, C B ^a,c  

^a INVERMAY AGRICULTURAL CENTRE   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^c AGRESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Beneficial species; Biological control; Field parasitism; Microctonus; Native weevils; Nontarget host range

Indexed keywords

BRACONIDAE; CURCULIONIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LISTRONOTUS; LISTRONOTUS BONARIENSIS; MICROCTONUS AETHIOPOIDES; MICROCTONUS HYPERODAE; RHINOCYLLUS CONICUS; SITONA DISCOIDEUS; SITONA LEPIDUS;

EID: 0000180361     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/26.3.694     Document Type: Article

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